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Show TEACHING CALVES TO DRINK Little Fellows Can Easily Be Taught to Help Themselves by Giving Warm Milk in Pall. Calves should be removed from the mother within a day or two. Some advocate never allowing them to suck, others let them suck once, then remove re-move them. Whichever way is done, the calf can easily be taught to drink by fastening it in a rigid stanchion and giving it the warm new milk in a clean pall. Feea sparingly at first, one and a half to two quarts of milk, morning, noon and night, for the first week, then drop the noon feed and increase others up to four quarts of feed night and morning. Change gradually from whole milk to skim milk. Feed all milk warm and sweet. Use a dairy thermometer and warm to 90 or 95 degrees. |